"No wonder he's the strongest in the Empire. His strength isn't just for show."
After Esders landed from the air, Ryuga walked up and clapped her hands lightly. She looked amazed.
"This level is nothing. Although these two dangerous species are big, they're very slow. They're just targets. At most, they're at the level of a super dangerous species."
Esders gently smoothed his long blue hair that was messed up by the sea breeze. There wasn't a trace of satisfaction on his face.
"Okay, let's start roasting. Although there's no seasoning, my skills are enough to make up for this gap."
Esders rolled up his sleeves, skillfully cut open the stomach of the prey he killed before, and set up a fire.
Ryuga went up to help. She picked up two pieces of firewood and put them in the fire, trying to make the flames burn brighter.
But after more than ten seconds, the flames in the fire became smaller and smaller for some reason. In the end, it was extinguished.
Ryuga fell into silence.
"… Just leave it there."
Esders gave him a slightly subtle look. "Yin-yang, are you really from the countryside and not some rich young master?"
He looked gentle, liked to read, and was polite to people, but he didn't even know the common sense of starting a fire and cooking. This kind of behavior made Ryuga unable to believe that he came from the countryside.
"Sorry."
After Ryuga apologized, she directly left the cooking process to Esders.
"But, it's really surprising. I didn't expect the captain to be so good at cooking."
In order not to continue to be entangled in the matter of her birth, Ryuga quietly changed the topic.
"It's nothing. I wasn't born as a general of the Empire."
Esders turned the pieces of meat and casually replied: "When I was young, I often started a fire and cooked by myself. Cooking meat from dangerous species is already a common thing."
"When the captain was young … It's a bit hard to imagine."
Ryuga thought for a while. She really couldn't construct the image of Esders when he was young in her mind.
Perhaps it was because Esders's current personality left a deep impression on others. In Ryuga's eyes, she must have been born with a sadist personality. She ran out of her mother's womb with a crazy smile on her face, and then stood on top of everyone's head, ordering everyone around.
"What kind of demon king image is that?"
Esders was speechless at Ryuga's imagination. "Is it that hard to imagine? Even I was a very ordinary girl when I was young … "
Aren't you the demon king?
Ryuga thought silently. Just like how Esders didn't have much of an impression of her, her impression of Esders was also very shallow. She felt that Esders was probably the kind of demon king who did whatever he wanted.
According to Esders, she was born in the northern border of the Empire, in a minority called Barutes. This tribe lived in a world of ice and snow, and there were few people. They also didn't have good land to grow crops, so basically, they made a living by hunting dangerous species. Most of the tribe members had extraordinary skills.
Esders's current deep-rooted concept was cultivated at that time. For a tribe that made a living by hunting dangerous species, no matter if it was the tribe leader or anyone else, they could only choose to live by not knowing when they would die under the claws of dangerous species. The wild concept of the law of the jungle was ingrained in the hearts of every tribe member.
When Esders went out to hunt, the entire tribe was destroyed in the hands of an alien tribe in the north.
"Then, Captain, when you killed 400,000 aliens in the north, it was actually a disguised form of revenge?"
Ryuga recalled the rumours about Esders. In the blink of an eye, he suppressed the alien army in the north that the Empire thought would take at least a year to defeat, and then buried 400,000 aliens alive.
"No, I didn't have any thoughts of revenge. After all, the Barutes tribe was very weak. Even if they were destroyed by the aliens, it was something that couldn't be helped."
Esders lifted the piece of meat and gently blew on it, tasting it as he continued to answer Ryuga's question. "The reason I chose to bury them all was mainly because it was very troublesome to deal with so many prisoners of war. It would take a lot of manpower and money to settle them down. I didn't have that kind of patience with the enemy, so I just killed them all."
So that was the case.
During the long march, the existence of prisoners of war was a problem in itself, not to mention that 400,000 prisoners of war consumed an astronomical amount of resources every day. There was no need to keep them alive.
If Ryuga was standing in that position, she would most likely choose the same way as Esders.
"What? You don't have any thoughts at all? "
Esders handed the roasted meat to Ryuga. "I thought that someone like you would definitely deny my methods and accuse me of not valuing life."
"That's not the case."
Ryuga shook her head and took a small bite of the roasted meat. Although it was tasteless, the meat was very tender, and the roasting temperature was obviously excellent. "I'm not some stubborn old woman. As long as it can effectively defeat the enemy, I don't care whether the method is noble or despicable. Similarly, from a long-term perspective, the extinction of the aliens in the north is also beneficial to the long-term prosperity of the Empire."
"I see. You might be quite unprecedented."
Esders looked at Ryuga with slight approval. There were not many people who seriously agreed with her on this matter.
"How's the taste?"
"Very good. Although it's a pity that there's no seasoning, the meat is very tender. I've never eaten meat that was roasted to such perfection."
In fact, he had never eaten roasted meat before. This was his first time, but this did not stop him from complimenting her.
"Hmph, if you think it's delicious, then eat more. You won't have such luck when we return to the Imperial Capital."
Esders snorted lightly, a satisfied smile appearing on his face. He clearly did not dislike Ryuga's praise.
"Of course."
Ryuga nodded in agreement while looking at Esders from head to toe.
She sat on a wooden stake that had been shaved flat with the Moon Spirit Marrow Liquid. Her slender legs were pressed together in front of her, and the way she nibbled on the meat looked very ladylike. It was hard to imagine that this woman would be full of arrogance when she fought.
"What's wrong? Is there something strange on my body? "
Esders noticed Ryuga's gaze and looked left and right at his body, but did not find anything strange.
"No, nothing."
Ryuga shook her head. "I was just thinking that when he's not fighting, Captain is really a very gentle person."
Although he was not like a human when he fought.
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